Social Commentary Quotes

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" "For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn" "People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things" "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." "It’s a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them" "I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." "In California they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows" "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal" "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime" "Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There’s more of it." "To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men doing." "You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes." "There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a very violent culture." "I drink to make other people more interesting" "I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."